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NOVELISTS > novelist, short-story writer > J D Salinger
What I like...
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while.... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone...
Source: The narrator, Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, ch. 3, 1951.
-- J D Salinger, (Jan 1 1919-2010), US novelist, short-story writer; His novel The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-WW II generation of college students.